Re: *good* Windows IMAP clients

[Eric Berman <[e-mail]>]

The message-as-attachments issue was a bug in the last beta that arose in
certain circumstances.  It's been fixed.

--Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Forester, Jr. <[e-mail]>
To: Ernie Oporto <[e-mail]>; Chris Box <[e-mail]>
Cc: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: Thursday, August 21, 1997 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: *good* Windows IMAP clients


> Of all the IMAP clients I've tried, there are none that I really like
(they
>all seem to be missing some feature here or there that I consider
>essential), but the one I hate the least is Outlook Express.  However,
there
>are still some things about it that are really starting to get on my
nerves.
>The most irritating thing is that it treats the body of certain messages as
>attachments of all things, and they have to be opened in notepad.  The only
>common thing between these messages is that they don't have a
>'Mime-version:' header.  Microsoft, If you're listening, PLEASE FIX THIS!
>IT'S BROKEN!
>
>Others I've tried include Simeon Mail, Z-Mail Pro, Solstice Internet Mail
>Client, and Netscape.  According to the folks at Qualcomm, the beta version
>of Eudora with IMAP support is due next month, and I'm going to try to get
>on the beta program as we have a site license here.  I'm really hoping that
>IMAP Eudora is as good as the current Eudora.
>
>Jack Forester, Jr.
>Sr. Applications Systems Analyst Programmer
>Telecommunications & Network Services
>West Virginia University
>[phone]
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ernie Oporto <[e-mail]>
>To: Chris Box <[e-mail]>
>Cc: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
>Date: Thursday, August 21, 1997 11:11 AM
>Subject: Re: *good* Windows IMAP clients
>
>
>
>>I love Outlook Express.  I've had much less problems that with Netscape
>>Communicator and the mail filtering is much better.  However, since it's a
>>beta, I can't recommend it to be used as a production client.  I currently
>>use Eudora, which is POP3 based and promises to move to IMAP in December.
>>
>>Once Outlook Express comes out in final form, I'll be using that from home
>>and Eudora 4 at work.
>>
>>-Ernie
>>
>>At 11:27 AM 8/21/97 +0100, you wrote:
>>>Can anyone recommend to me a good IMAP client to use on Windows (win32)
>>>within a LAN environment?
>>>
>>>I've got fed up of Netscape Communicator's poor interaction with imapd
>>>(namely that it takes several seconds to perform any action, and quite
>>>often re-opens the connection to the IMAPD server, even resulting in
>>>deadlock because two IMAPDs want the lock on the mailfile).
>>>
>>>If I can't find one I may have to switch to POP3 (which I don't want to
>>>do because I'd rather have my mail stored on the server).
>>>
>>>--
>>>Chris Box                                    mailto:[e-mail]
>>>K-par Systems Ltd                           http://www.k-par.co.uk
>>>
>>>
>>-Ernie
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